Twin bnei mitzvah, Persian palace dreams, and Iranian missiles lead to an unforgettable Shabbat Zachor.
There is a second form of sacred survival: to survive as a nation. And that too takes precedence over everything.
A class by Rabbi Heschel Greenberg on the Rambam’s Mishneh Torah: You can make a Bracha for others unless it's a pleasure-blessing — except when that pleasure is part of a mitzvah like Matzah or ...
The halachic rationale for all this was pikuah nefesh, the proscription that the preservation of life overrules every other Jewish Law. Although I’m pretty sure that doesn’t include doomscrolling ...
A Haggada, by Rabbi Dr. Joshua Berman, a professor of Bible at Bar-Ilan University, is built on a claim that scholars of the ancient Near East (Middle East) have long recognized but that has never ...
A recent antisemitic conspiracy rant by far-right media commentator Tucker Carlson has spurred a slew of donations to Chabad centers. Activist Shabbos Kestenbaum told COLlive what’s behind it.
Worship services and children’s classes every Sunday at 10 a.m., coffee at 11 a.m. Mac and Cheese Dinner and dessert auction ...
An acquaintance of mine was once on a cable car in South America when it suddenly became dark. He felt someone touching his head under his kippah. When the lights ...
A Jewish social worker who called Pittsburgh home for 32 years spent most of Saturday sheltered behind a steel door and ...
As we finished Parashat Zachor — the command to both remember and eradicate our biblical arch nemesis Amalek — the cantor ...
For Yechezkel, the process of purification is placed within the national life of Israel to restore the people as a whole. Unlike Parshat Para, which focuses on the restoration of an individual so they ...
If a siren sounds while we are reading the Megillah and we pause, do we start again or continue from where we left off?